Hi, I might start to sound like a salesman, but the Elasticsearch indexing code in Koha handles and indexes alternate script fields (880) automatically in the correct search fields. :)
Regards, Ere Katrin Fischer kirjoitti 22.11.2019 klo 11.44: > Hi Charles, > > if ICU with Zebra is set up correctly, you should be able to search for > the records using the original script (as cataloged) without any further > setup. If the original script is in 880 only the keyword search will > include them by default. But this is not related to ICU - the problem is > that indexing is not set up to include the 880 xxx in the corresponding > indexes. > > If you want to search transliterated forms or need some other specific > things, adjustments to the chains might be needed. > > Hope this helps, > > Katrin > > On 20.11.19 20:39, Charles Kelley wrote: >> Hello, all! >> >> I am developing a catalog of multilingual, multiscript materials: >> Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, >> Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Vietnamese, to name but a few. Since both >> Koha >> and MarcEdit are UTF8, I can enter the cataloging records and edit >> them in >> their appropriate script. >> >> What I cannot do is to search them. I have seen on the Koha >> Community >> wiki is that ICU chains have to be configured. Here's the link: >> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library. I also found an >> exchange about this: >> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2012-January/031714.html. >> >> Is one to infer that the ICU chain has to be configured for each >> writing system? Are there other multilingual libraries that have >> implemented multilingual, multiscript searching in Koha and how did >> they do >> so? >> >> Many thanks for your help in this matter. >> > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Ere Maijala Kansalliskirjasto / The National Library of Finland _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
